Stein owns the Lexington Legends baseball team and is the husband of State Rep. Kathy Stein, the Republican baiting, rabble rousing, liberal, feminist from Lexington. I don't think Mr. Stein could be a conservative Republican and live with the Mrs. so I'm guessing he's a Democrat.

The gas gouging investigation by Greg Stumbo could be a big boost to whichever office he runs for in 2007. Stumbo has subpoenaed records from Speedway (owned by Marathon Oil) and 11 of the major U.S. oil companies, looking at their pricing. There's not a better issue to captivate the voters imagination right now than high gas prices which don't seem to make sense.

If Ben Chandler was seriously considering a race for Governor, why wasn't he at the Fancy Farm Picnic?

Kelly Downard is going to have a tough job saying Jerry Abramson has been bad for Louisville's economy. Thousands of jobs for Louisville have been announced in the past 6 months. And Downard's sucking up to the unions on the arena contracts probably didn't win, or lose, him any votes.